Minnesota Army National Guard will send hundreds of soldiers to Egypt

237 Minnesota-based soldiers are headed to Egypt to enforce a peace treaty.

The group is from the Minnesota Army National Guard's Mankato-based 2nd Battalion, 135th Infantry Regiment and their mission to the Sinai Peninsula will last nine months.

It’s part of an effort to enforce the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, supporting the Multi-National Force and Observers (MFO).

Before the group heads overseas, they'll get some pre-deployment training at Fort Bliss, Texas. According to the National Guard, the soldiers will deploy by the end of the summer to help the 2,000 or so people who make up the MFO.

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The mission

The soldiers will be working to make sure neither party in the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty violate its terms.